No one has addressed the logical flaw that the MASN money hasn't changed yet and isn't guaranteed to do so. Or the fact that they could sign Prince and Cespedes.

The MASN money is irrelevant at this point. If you're going to depend on that to spend you might as well get the LAC serial number tattooed on your forehead and have Chief change your username to "LickingMarksSack69".

Why would young players want their team to sign free agents? Free Agents take roster spots, maybe even their roster spot. If I were a young player, I'd see the Nats as an opportunity for playing time, lots of playing time. And they seemed to be a pretty tight knit group that has been improving the last two years.

I think the only thing that players care about on a day to day basis is how much they get to play, it's what I hear them talk about all the time.

Other than Ryan, who has Free Agency on the horizon, why would a player who is under team control for 5 more years (or whatever) care about anything other than playing time?

Some of what is being thrown around is not fair. Guys like Balester were given every chance to stick with the club but could never produce at a high enough level to stay in the Majors.

Not true...Bally 40 games as a reliever at a 3.81 ERA with 56 innin gs and 62 K's compared to 139 innings that Perry had in Detroit. Now that organization knows how to give a fair shot! Like this year...I hope the give Detwiler his fair shot and start him all year long so he doesn't have to pitch while looking over his shoul;der all the time. .

The MASN money is irrelevant at this point. If you're going to depend on that to spend you might as well get the LAC serial number tattooed on your forehead and have Chief change your username to "LickingMarksSack69".

Not only that, they seem certain that the money is well on its way and that it will be a nice spike. Also, why should we have to wait for them to add an additional 30 million so they can spend 12 of it.